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Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
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Revolt is also a great open source alternative that I tried and would recommend
I just installed it after I ran into it on some other Lemmy comment. I was hoping to replace discord with it.
It just feels like it isn't "there" just yet? Unless I'm missing something?
If I showed it to friends of mine today and they had my experience I'm sure they'd go back to discord.
Not hating on the devs though. The product itself seems to be coming along nicely.
Yes, it definitely has missing features in comparison to Discord but I think it has potential. It may be useful to submit requests on Github.
If it helps, I'm pretty sure the devs are in the process of rewriting the UI on a private repo. Idk if there's any eta or progress chart
Writing code in private and then throwing it over the wall to the public is usually a pretty huge red flag with projects that are already public.
It's way better than Matrix
No E2EE for DMs, groups, or notes.
That's going to be the deal breaker for most.
Matrix is far too slow for what it's intended to be. I'd certainly like to see E2EE come to Revolt.
I don't think it's good as Matrix in terms of privacy and security but I think it's better as an alternative to Discord
It is just as centralized and has a tendency to ban people for poor reasons